Raised whenever Microsoft Defender for Cloud protection plans detect a threat. Each carries a severity rating, names affected resources and suggests remediation.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Combines security posture management with workload protection: a free foundational CSPM tier, paid Defender plans, Secure Score and recommendations. Its regulatory compliance dashboard shows status only and blocks nothing.
- remediation
Applying updates through vSphere Lifecycle Manager, entering maintenance mode where needed, so that every cluster and host ends up compliant with its image or baselines. Readiness can first be confirmed by a pre-check that changes nothing.
Related terms
- Defender for Cloud email notifications
Emailed security alerts from Defender for Cloud. Out of the box only High severity is sent, and each recipient receives roughly four high, two medium and one low per day at most.
- Defender for Storage malware scanning
As blobs are uploaded, Microsoft Defender Antivirus checks them. Charges are per GB, limited each month per account (10,000 GB by default), and results can land in blob index tags, Event Grid, Log Analytics or security alerts.